Thursday, 19 February 2009

Travel quotes book

One of my friends is about to go travelling round Europe in a van, so I made her a book of quotes that she could use on her blog.

I found lots of quotes and vintage-styl
e pictures on the internet, intending originally to print them out to form a simple book. However, using Microsoft Word and an HP printer made it impossible to print pages double sided and get them to line up on each side. So I ended up printing each page individually.

I then decided to go for a ring-bound format and got to work cutting and gluing, interspersing a few differently decorated pages. I had a lot of tra
vel-related stickers left over from the book I made for my sister a few years ago, documenting our travels round Spain and Portugal. I then decided to protect the pages with sticky-back plastic, since they were printed using an ink-jet printer and even I was beginning to smudge them with slightly damp fingers.



















































I was really
pleased with how the whole thing turned out. Even Andy, who only saw it unfinished, said it looked really professional.

2 comments:

  1. I have to comment on this as the lucky recipient of this book. Its fantatsic! I now have no excuse not to add quotes to my blog throughout the year. Thank you sooo much mel xx

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  2. I have to comment on this as the lucky recipient of the book. It is fantastic and I was so impressed. Thank you so much mel xx

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